Journal of the Mathematics Council of the Alberta Teachers’ Association
Volume 28 Issue 1, April 1990
19 – 23
Tessellation, Tiling or Surrounding a Point
K. Allen Neufeld
Tessellation (tiling) activities can be used effectively to present many of the 26 geometry concepts in the Alberta Education Elementary Curriculum Guide. Introductory activities should always emphasize the concrete mode, regardless of the grade level at which they are presented. Gradually a transition can be made to the pictorial and abstract modes. Although tiling can be done with a variety of two-dimensional geometric shapes, the activities that follow are based on seven regular polygonal regions whose perimeters are triangles, squares, pentagons, hexagons, octagons, decagons and dodecagons.
